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Lynn and Jane Tilton
From our experience homeschooling our large family, as well as teaching school, we'd have to agree that developing hand skills is crucial to development of both brain and character.
Sadly, schools are abandoning both wood-shop and home economics classes, as well as art and music--all of which we feel are necessary to total education and development.

From our experience as building chair for a number of Habitat for Humanity homes, out skilled volunteers were, almost without fail, older men and women. The younger volunteers had very little skill or experience and not much patience to acquire it, either.

From our experience homeschooling our family, as well as teaching school, we'd certainly agree that hand-skills are a crucial part of developing both mind and character. Sadly, we have seen the demise of both woodshop and home economics programs in schools. As the building chairman for a number of Habitat for Humanity homes, I found that our skilled volunteers were almost without exception older men and women--the young volunteers had almost no idea how to work with their hands, nor the patience for it.